To carry out the final wishes of Lisa McPherson's mother, Fannie, which were
to expose the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology and to help
those who have been victimized by it.

Statement of Objectives:

To accomplish our mission, we will demystify and thereby make transparent
the coercive processes and practices of Scientology. In this way, informed
consumers can make an educated decision about whether Scientology can meet
their psychological or spiritual needs.

We will expose Scientology's abuses of the human, civil and privacy rights
of its members and critics. We will reveal its deceptive advertising
practices that border on consumer fraud. We will disclose its "religious
practices" and conduct that violate civil and criminal law. However, we
will of course respect the rights of all Scientologists to embrace any
religious belief they may choose.

We will assist former Scientologists to recover from their unique personal
experience with the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology. We will
offer counsel to current Scientologists who choose to learn the truth about
how Scientology uses deceptive mind control techniques to capture their
hearts and minds. Our dedicated staff of counselors will provide the
information, compassion and support to current Scientologists that will
enable them to release the bonds of cult mind control.

Finally, all of the people involved in the Lisa McPherson Trust will respect
the dignity and innate human goodness of all current, former and recovering
Scientologists.

Our Philosophy:

The Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and staff of the Lisa McPherson
Trust includes a number of former Scientologists who have had first hand
experience with Scientology's abuse, and they are all in some way still
recovering from it. They are decent, caring and loving human beings who have
freely chosen to help others who have made a similar uninformed decision
about Scientology. Moreover, they are willing and able to share their
innermost personal experiences in the Sea Organization or as Public
Scientologists in order to counsel, educate and immunize others against the
abuses and deceptions of Scientology.

Scientology draws its members from a broad cross-section of society, and,
like other destructive cults, uses a sophisticated combination of deceptive
recruiting methods, false promises, hypnosis, behavior modification, sleep
deprivation, dietary manipulation, information control, phobia
indoctrination and other mind control techniques to entice and control its
members. There is no shame in having been seduced into a group like
Scientology. Likewise, there need not be any reluctance to leave after
discovering that the organization is not capable of delivering on its
promise of a road to total freedom.

Real freedom begins and ends with the never-ending quest of the human spirit
to be free. This perpetual quest is the single most important factor that
keeps mind control from being irreversible. Organized Scientology claims
eight million members, including anyone who has ever taken a course or
bought a book. However, informed estimates indicate that there are at most
no more than 200,000 active Scientologists in the world today. This apparent
rejection of Scientology by 7.8 million people who have tried it is the
single greatest testimonial to the fact that this organization does not
deliver on its promises.

The Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and staff of the Lisa McPherson
Trust will do our part in Clearwater, Florida, to see that the human spirit
of all Scientologists will always have a pathway to real freedom.

>We will assist former Scientologists to recover from their unique personal
>experience with the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology. We will
>offer counsel to current Scientologists who choose to learn the truth about
>how Scientology uses deceptive mind control techniques to capture their
>hearts and minds. Our dedicated staff of counselors will provide the
>information, compassion and support to current Scientologists that will
>enable them to release the bonds of cult mind control.

What about the Scientologists who are still inside and need a place
to sleep, food to eat, a safe place to hide from the cult while they
regain their balance, and help finding and/or contacting their families?
A place where they can simply lie down on a bed and close their eyes
for five hours? Even if they go back to the cult that's still five
hours of rest that'll help their minds make the right decision to get
the hell out.

Some of the things that these crooks do to keep their victims from
getting the hell out are:

If the LMT -- a profit organization -- acquires donations to help run
and support it, I would think that countering these brainwashing tricks
would be _exactly_ what the LMT should engage in.

Give cultists a place to flee to so they can rest, eat a couple of
meals, talk with fellow human beings, and sit quietly for a few days
or so such that they can regain their balance and rebuild their lives
and regain their lives. Help them find work by working with the
Clearwater City and the State of Florida employment offices. Help
them write resumes. Provide postage for resumes, a telephone that
prospective employeers can call, and drive them to interviews.

They'll have family members who have either given up on them or who
have abandoned them. The LMT could -- should, I say -- help cultists
trying to escape find their families and should stand between the
cultist trying to escape and their family, help to re-introduce them
to each other, and step back to allow them to re-find each other.

For that the LMT needs a qualified, well trained, and experienced
psychologist on staff.

If you want to do the puppy up seriously, Mr. Minton, you've got to
enumerate what it is that cultists need to be able to escape, and
you've got to enumerate what your organization can and can't do to
meet those needs. If your organization lacks qualified people or
resources to meet a need, you need to network with other organizations
that can meet those needs -- organizations that match your goals.

The LMT charter is a great start, but it's not specific enough, I
think. Cultists contemplating getting the hell out of the Scientology
cult are going to go straight for your charter's web page, and for
your "about the LMT" web page -- or the flyer you hand them. They're
going to want to know immediately whether the organization can or can
not help them. The rhetoric is grand and promising, but they'll
want specifics.

There's my unsolicited opinion. You probably already have good guys
with good suggestions and advice working to make the LMT a good thing.
But please prioritize what it is cultists need, if you haven't
already.

Their brains are mush, having been fed TR0 and Hubbardism -- some
times for decades. They'll be unable to track rationally along a
train of thought, and all they'll know is that they want to get out
but have qualms and, even if they could get out, they would have no
place to go.

Speaking of unsolicited advice, at some point the LMT needs to solicit
funds. Right now I'll guarentee a donation from The Skeptic Tank of
$1,000 a year to start with.

>Statement of Objectives:
>
>To accomplish our mission, we will demystify and thereby make transparent
>the coercive processes and practices of Scientology. In this way, informed
>consumers can make an educated decision about whether Scientology can meet
>their psychological or spiritual needs.
>
>We will expose Scientology's abuses of the human, civil and privacy rights
>of its members and critics. We will reveal its deceptive advertising
>practices that border on consumer fraud. We will disclose its "religious
>practices" and conduct that violate civil and criminal law. However, we
>will of course respect the rights of all Scientologists to embrace any
>religious belief they may choose.
>
>We will assist former Scientologists to recover from their unique personal
>experience with the abusive and deceptive practices of Scientology. We will
>offer counsel to current Scientologists who choose to learn the truth about
>how Scientology uses deceptive mind control techniques to capture their
>hearts and minds. Our dedicated staff of counselors will provide the
>information, compassion and support to current Scientologists that will
>enable them to release the bonds of cult mind control.

What is missing here is assisting victims of Scientology / of
Scientology fronts / Scientologist businesses. For example, the girl
who approached us in the "ribs" restaurant who was defrauded of her life
savings needs to be referred to a skilled attorney. There are usually
many victims of such scams, and only those who sue first have the best
chance to recover some of their money.

Scientologist scams are not only an important contribution to
scientology, they are vital. A german court decision already held in
1995 that scientology receives money both from legal and illegal
activities, tries to hide this fact, and that this practice may be
called "money-laundering".

This "money-laundering" was even taken literally in the "laundry ball"
scheme.

Therefore, huting or preventing scientologist scams does hurt
scientology, not only financially but also by reputation.